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All the stuff, really, enough to make a bona-fide, honest-to-God, true-blue spoof feature, the kind made by a studio and with a budget and giant stars and a full-fledged theatrical release.
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2025
In the desert lands of the first century, a young boy catches the sight of a giant star.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 June 2025
The most violent of these deaths are associated with truly giant stars and are known as supernovas—explosions that sometimes outshine entire galaxies.
—Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
Pollux is a giant star, while Castor is three stars orbiting each other.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2025
In the desert lands of the first century, a young boy catches the sight of a giant star.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 June 2025
The most violent of these deaths are associated with truly giant stars and are known as supernovas—explosions that sometimes outshine entire galaxies.
—Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
Pollux is a giant star, while Castor is three stars orbiting each other.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for giant star
Noun
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Instead, Lohan put her right hand in the shot, showing off a bubble bath pink natural nail polish as well as a small red star tattoo.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
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Big, hot, blue stars live shorter lives, while tiny, cool, red stars live for much longer.—
Stephen DiKerby,
The Conversation,
24 Nov. 2025
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The fact that these events are responsible for the creation of some of our most precious and important elements, as well as bright cosmic phenomena like GRBs and kilonovas, means there has been a heavy bias toward studying the aftereffects of neutron star mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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The culprit was a magnetar, a super-magnetized neutron star located about 50,000 light-years away.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
22 Jan. 2026
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But when a binary star about to go supernova threatens the planet Adjumir, Maw’s beloved Gebre entrusts him with an artifact and the order to leave him behind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Next, locate the highest point of light in the constellation — the binary star system Rasalhague — and its neighbor Kappa Ophiuchi to the lower right.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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In another imaging campaign, API, assisted by AMIGO, was able to produce detailed images of a black hole jet, the volcanic surface of Jupiter's moon Io, and stellar winds emanating from a distant variable star.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Many of these alerts will be triggered by variable stars, which cyclically change in brightness.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 June 2025
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Procyon's white dwarf companion was not found until 1896 at the Lick Observatory in California.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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To understand a nova, first understand a white dwarf.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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The change in variable, that of international student enrollment, means the university has gone from a student body of over 9,000 students to now slightly above 6,000 students over the past two years.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
3 Feb. 2026
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But which variable is most impactful, the wind speed or air temperature?—
Jeff Wagner,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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As the red giant expels gas, the white dwarf pulls in this material until enough accumulates on its surface to trigger a thermonuclear explosion.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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If that is the case, the Ring Nebula could be a portent of what awaits Earth in around 5 billion years when the sun runs out of fuel for nuclear fusion and puffs out to become a red giant.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Giant star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giant%20star. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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